Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

The wounded generals had to lead the troops, which greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers.

In this regard, female generals do have certain advantages over male generals. The wounded female generals aroused the soldiers' desire to protect and win to the greatest extent. Although Tiya was strong enough to carry a mule and cross-country, she could also tear the enemy apart on the battlefield.

After the soldiers were ready, Orville also started his own plan.

At dusk, Orville ordered a large number of crossbows in the legion to shoot food into the city, which once again caused local civilians to loot and traffic under the city wall was blocked.

A considerable number of soldiers were absent-minded and followed the civilians to rob food.

Taking advantage of this great opportunity, Tiya personally led the soldiers to operate the battering ram and started a new round of attack.

Before, the Roman soldiers had always waited until the earthen embankment was completed before starting the attack. Now that the earthen embankment had just collapsed, the Parfi people thought that the Romans would temporarily suspend the attack and their defense was a little lax, so they were caught off guard.

The soldiers who were looting food under the city wall hurriedly drilled up, and the reserve troops in the city also hurriedly prepared to run up the city wall, but both were blocked by the people who were looting food.

The crossbows were still throwing food intermittently, which made the hungry civilians reluctant to leave, no matter how the soldiers drove them away, seeing that the Roman army was getting closer and closer to the city wall.

The soldiers who could no longer care about too many things had no choice but to decide to kill the civilians and use blood to make these people wake up and make way for themselves.

This caused further chaos in the city. The priest party, who saw the opportunity, took the opportunity to start an uprising. A small group of people suddenly rushed out from behind the rebels, causing the rebels to be in chaos. The three parties were mixed together and could not organize a proper defense at all.

At the same time, another team of priests had ambushed near the city gate in advance. When the riots began, they quickly killed the gate guards and slowly removed the stones and wood blocking the city gate.

Diya's battering ram arrived under the city wall without much obstruction. They knocked on the city gate. After knocking the city gate open, the priests in the city had almost cleared the obstacles at the city gate.

The two sides cooperated internally and externally, and the army quickly rushed into the city gate, but due to the congestion and chaos in front of the city wall, the large army did not continue to advance, but stayed in place to consolidate the position to prevent the enemy from counterattacking.

The road from the Antony Wall to the temple was very narrow and crowded, and only a few people could pass through first. Considering the injury of her left arm, Diya finally did not lead people there in person. She ordered the most capable centurion to take more than 200 people to touch over.

Under the guidance of the local guide, the group shuttled back and forth between the paths and indeed came to the gate of the temple.

At this time, the gap in the combat quality of the two armies was clearly revealed. The Roman army would always leave a guard force to guard important positions. Now the gate of the temple was still open, and many guards did not stay at the shooting point of the city wall at all. Instead, they went to a position with a wide field of vision to observe the commotion from the Antony Wall.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two hundred people immediately began to seize the gate of the temple. The guards who were caught off guard met the well-prepared heavy-armored warriors, and the result is needless to say.

Most of the guards at the gate were killed by the Romans' javelins at the first contact. The remaining people had a blank mind and could not think of forming a formation to resist on the spot. Instead, they retreated to the temple and prepared to join the guards on the city wall to keep warm together.

The Romans took this opportunity to enter the temple unimpeded, and then began to fight fiercely with the guards of the temple.

In the protracted war, the combat capabilities of these Parfi people have been improving. They have a numerical advantage and launched rounds of fearless charges.

The number of Romans is really limited. They set up the famous tortoise shell formation, like a stone, and held on to the door, struggling to support until sporadic support troops arrived.

The hand-to-hand combat between the two sides was still very tragic, with blood, corpses and broken weapons all over the ground. The battlefield spread from the entrance of the temple to a few dozen meters inside the temple, but in the end the Romans still failed to rush in and seize the temple.

Seeing that the war was unresolved, the Roman reinforcements continued to rush to the battlefield, and the shield wall pushed the Parphi people's battle line back little by little. John Levi and Bar. Gioura, who were standing on the watchtower in the inner courtyard of the temple to observe the situation, made a decision.

They used rosin and other flammable materials to ignite the exquisite colonnade, which was the main passage connecting the Antony Wall and the temple and the focus of the two armies.

The fierce fire burned, and the Romans had to start retreating to avoid being buried in the sea of ​​fire. This attack was considered a failure, but it is conceivable that the city gate would be damaged by the fire, and the next attack would be easier.

On the Antony Wall side, the battle also entered the final stage. The Parphi rebels retreated step by step, and the Romans and the priest party's army gradually controlled the city wall and most of the attached urban areas.

After the initial panic, the civilians in the city saw the city gates open and began to flee outside the city. The Romans detained these people and gave them some food, waiting for future disposal.

The Antonine Wall was already controlled by the Romans. Now they could choose to attack the third wall and the temple connected to the Antonine Wall.

However, they did not choose to do so. One reason was that the troops needed to rest, and the other was that the situation in the city was so bad that it was absolutely not an exaggeration to describe it as inhumane.

Orville and most of the Roman soldiers felt physically uncomfortable after seeing the scene in the city. After seeing it, Tia was in a complex state of anger and self-blame. She swore to the gods one after another, swearing that everything in the city was Pa What Elfi did had nothing to do with him. After repeated mental hints for a long time, he could barely accept the reality.

Orville recorded the situation in writing in his diary.

“The people in the city were eating leather belts, leather straps from shoes and shields, and some were picking up stalks of hay to sell, but soon it was hard to find even such food.

There are women and babies who have starved to death or are dying on many rooftops. The streets are full of dead old people. Those who survive are also bloated from hunger. They are as weak as ghosts. There are some people walking from the gate to the Roman camp. Thirteen men fell dead. The sick people in the city did not have the strength to bury their loved ones, and perhaps the healthy people would not do so because there were so many dead people.

Those who buried others fell down and died together with the corpses. This situation seemed to be very common, and many people climbed into the shroud themselves to wait for death. Those who came out of the city did not cry or mourn. Hunger suppressed all their emotions. , the atmosphere was very silent and depressing.

It seemed like for a long time the rebels were fighting the rest of us across the piles of corpses. We had to spend several days cleaning up these corpses, partly in order not to desecrate the dead, and partly because we were worried about a terrible plague. The situation was so bad that many veterans who had served for more than ten years vomited like drunkards, and The recruit fainted in the city and almost suffocated to death."